From: Abdul Salau <salauabdul@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 9:26 PM
Subject: Fw: Zin'naariyâ! (The Wedding Ring), a film by Rahmatou KEÏTA A Nigerien Film Director
To: abdul abdul <salauabdul@gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, January 23, 2017 5:02 PM
To: Abdul Salau
Subject: Fw: Zin'naariyâ! (The Wedding Ring), a film by Rahmatou KEÏTA A Nigerien Film Director
I was at the Johannesburg Film Festival in South Africa on November 6, 2016, and I had the opportunity to watch this film.
| | Tiyaa is a student, member of a prestigious aristocratic family. She is back home to sultanate of Damagaran, in Niger Republic, for the Winter holidays. As p... | |
Joburg Film Festival 2016 winners:
Special Mention of the Jury : the Wedding Ring by Rahmatou Keita
Best SA Film : The Giant is Falling by Rehad Desai
Best African Film : The Whale Caller by Zola Maseko
Best Film : Train of Salt and Sugar by Licinio Azevedo
| | The Joburg Film Festival wrapped up in a glittering event on Saturday 5 November with the African premiere of Nate Parker's Birth of a Nation. | |
 | The Wedding Ring is a story of love, pain, sensuality, and marriage. Rahmatou Keïta's second feature offers an empowering female-character-driven take on romantic ... | |
The Wedding Ring
Zin'naariyâ!
.Synopsis of the Film From : Toronto International Film Festival
The Wedding Ring
Zin'naariyâ!
Rahmatou Keïta
Countries: Niger / Burkina Faso / France96 minutes2016Colour
African languages: Songhoy/ Zarma /Hausa/ Fulaani
Subtitle: In English
Recently returned to her home in the Sultanate of Zinder after completing her degree abroad, a young woman suffering from the pain of a lost love finds renewal while awaiting the mystical promise of a new moon. The Wedding Ring is a story of love, pain, sensuality, and marriage. Rahmatou Keïta's second feature offers an empowering female-character-driven take on romantic fiction. It's also an immersive introduction to the fast-fading customs of Niger's Sahelian people.
Tiyaa (Magaajyia Silberfeld), a clever woman of aristocratic birth, should have the world at her feet when she returns home to the Sultinate of Zinder after completing her degree abroad. But Tiyaa is aimless and burdened by the pain of a lost love. In the absence of any better idea, she reluctantly seeks counsel from a zimma, a Zarma Songhay wise man who seeks answers to life's mysteries in the elements. He advises that, on the eve of the new moon, she should procure a foreign symbol of marriage: a plain gold wedding band. Otherwise, she will only risk more heartache.
Tiyaa is at first skeptical, but she is also patient, and she spends the days leading up to the new moon in a kind of pedestrian road movie, wandering the community as she waits for the lunar event. Encounters with women of various generations open Tiyaa's eyes to the possibility of romantic passion, and she witnesses how the women of Niger thoughtfully measure their own innate desire for passion and happiness. Keïta's first feature was the documentary Al'lèèssi... an African Actress, which screened at Cannes. Now Keïta proves equally adept at directing fiction — but her film is firmly rooted in reality. Its exquisite costumes and meticulously detailed production design are crafted as a love letter to the Sahelian way of life.
CAMERON BAILEY
This film has been selected for the next generation of film lovers by the TIFF Next Wave Committee.
Additional Credits
Cameron Bailey is the Artistic Director of the Toronto International Film Festival. He is responsible for the overall vision and execution of Festival programming, as well as maintaining relationships with the Canadian and international film industries. Toronto Life has named him one of Toronto's 50 Most Influential People four years in a row. Born in London, Bailey grew up in England and Barbados before migrating to Canada. Before taking up his current position at TIFF, he was a Festival programmer for 11 years, and a writer and broadcaster on film. He has presented international cinema on Showcase Television's national programme The Showcase Revue, and has been published in The Globe and Mail, The Village Voice, CineAction!, and Screen. Bailey has curated film series for Cinematheque Ontario, the National Gallery of Canada, the National Film Board of Canada, and Australia's Sydney International Film Festival.
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